Cookery - Food Rhetorics and Social Production

The rhetoric of contemporary food production and consumption with a focus on social boundaries

About the author

Donovan Conley is Berman Chair in Language and Thought and associate professor of communication studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is coeditor of Imagining China: Rhetorics of Nationalism in an Age of Globalization. He also has published articles in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Pre/Text, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Culture, Theory and Critique.

Justin Eckstein is assistant professor and director of forensics in the communication department at Pacific Lutheran University. He has published articles in Philosophy and Rhetoric, Argumentation, Argumentation and Advocacy, Western Journal of Communication, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, among other journals.

Summary

The rhetoric of food is more than just words about food, and food is more than just edible matter. Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production explores how food mediates both rhetorical influence and material life through the overlapping concepts of invention and production.

Product details

• Assisted by: Donovan Conley (Editor), Justin Eckstein (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780817359836
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5983-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Series: Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Alabama Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics